With mHealth being at the centre of a convergence of two distinct trillion dollar industries (Mobile and Healthcare) it’s clear that while it might be creating a storm it’s not one that’s always obvious even to those right in the middle.

“As I have been arguing for a decade… …mobile phones will cannibalize all that is pocketable and digital, more recently I have summarized it to this formula: Mobile + Anything = Mobile

…so initially it was a ‘musicphone’ now all mobile phones have music. So originallly Mobile + Music became just Mobile. Or the camera. Early on it was a curiosity and not all phones, not even all premium phones (remember early Blackberries) did not have cameras. Mobile + Camera became just Mobile. Today almost every phone has an inbuilt camera of some sorts, most have two. And so forth. Mobile plus anything becomes soon just mobile”

In the future when mHealth is mainstream and you ask a patient what what they are doing: